The Camden Conference and Rockport Public Library are pleased to present a Film Series: Refugees and Global Migration, in connection with the 30th Camden Conference which will focus on the same theme. The series will take place over three Saturdays, November 5, 12, and 19, at the Rockport Opera House. The first in the series, “Salam Neighbor”, which translates to “Hello Neighbor”, is a documentary released in 2016 by the film production companies Living on One Dollar and 1001 MEDIA. The title has a dual meaning as the Arabic word “salam” also means “peace.” The film documents the experiences of American filmmakers Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple when they lived among 85,000 Syrians in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp, which lies seven miles from the Syrian border. The filmmakers, who were the first allowed by the UN to register and set-up a tent inside a refugee camp, spent a month in Za’atari to cover…

Please join us for an exciting series of classes on Liturgical Theology! Vespers will follow the classes.

November 5 — Liturgy and Worship in the Bible
November 12 — Liturgy and Worship in the Early Church
November 19 — Liturgy and Worship in the Patristic Era
November 26 — Liturgy and Worship in the Contemporary Orthodox World
December 3 — The Holy Mysteries of Initiation
December 10 — The Holy Mystery of the Holy Eucharist
December 17 — The Holy Mysteries of Healing, Marriage & Ordination

This is the first in a series of conferences co-hosted by the National Humanities Alliance and the Federation of State Humanities Councils that will bring the humanities community together as a whole to consider how, by leveraging our strengths, we can achieve broader public impact and showcase the fundamental role the humanities play in addressing both local and global challenges.

Panagiotis Roilos, “I Am the Way and the Truth”: A Cognitive Historical Anthropology of the Ethics of Imagination in Byzantium

Event description: Professor Roilos’ lecture will focus on the tensions between Christian ethics (especially sanctioned discourses on truth) and imagination in Byzantium. By focusing on specific examples of hagiography, rhetoric, and allegorical hermeneutics, Roilos shall illustrate the ways in which ancient Greek theories of, and approaches to phantasia and fictionality were adapted to medieval Greek literary and broader intellectual contexts. Roilos shall propose a new methodological approach to this complex cultural process on the basis of what he calls “cognitive historical anthropology.”

STOTS will host a Fall Vocations Retreat, “St. John Chrysostom: Champion of the Priesthood”.

“We look forward to celebrating the feast of St. John Chrysostom this year by welcoming to campus men and women from throughout the country who are interested in exploring the teachings of this great Church Father,” Archpriest Dr. Steven Voytovich, Seminary Dean, said. “His vision of the priesthood is inspiring to anyone who is thinking seriously about serving the Church in some capacity.”

During the retreat, participants will have the opportunity to join with the seminary community and monastery brotherhood in prayer, tour the monastery and seminary grounds, hear talks and join in discussions about ministry and St. John Chrysostom, and meet the seminary’s Dean, faculty, and students. Both women and men are encouraged to attend.

The Miami Ball is organized by two missionary-educational organizations: Prince Vladimir Youth Association and Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute. All proceeds collected from this charitable event will be shared equally between these partnered organizations.

Join other PaTRAM friends and sponsors in supporting our cause while having fun and enjoying exceptional entertainment including a performance by a choir of PaTRAM singers.

Lecturer: Peter Jeffery received a PhD in Music History from Princeton University in 1980, with a dissertation entitled “The Autograph Manuscripts of Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676),” about the life work of an early opera composer. Jeffery has published over 100 articles and books on a range of topics, in publications that include Early Music History, Studia Liturgica, Jewish Quarterly Review, Theological Studies and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. He is currently at the University of Notre Dame as the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies.

Topic: “A Quiet and Peaceful Life: Following Christ in Troubled Times”
The Very Reverend Michael Butler, presenter,is an Archpriest of the Orthodox Church in America serving at Holy Transfiguration
in Livonia. He has been a parish priest for more than 21 years. He has a B.A. in psychology from the University of Dallas, an M.A. in theology from the University of Dallas, and a Ph.D. in church history and patristics from Fordham University, where he wrote his dissertation on St Maximus the Confessor.

In addition to his priestly duties, Father Michael has taught at universities and is a frequent participant in scholarly
conferences. He is a teacher in his diocesan late vocations programs and a regular speaker at Acton University, where he
has given presentations on natural law, environmentalism, and church-state relations in Orthodox thought.

We have two relevant and important topics to consider. They will be presented by two distinguished Orthodox Christian theologians and devout parishioners of their parish families.

FRIDAY EVENING, November 18 following vespers: Professor Helen Theodoropoulos will present and have us consider: “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good (1Cor 12:7):” Serving together the Body of Christ.

SATURDAY MORNING, November 19: Professor Elizabeth Prodromou will consider: The Day-After the Holy and Great Council: Process, Outcomes, and Transformation.

Metropolitan Isaiah, Archbishop Nathaniel, and Archbishop Benjamin will offer comments on these topics.
We should all be energized to consider how we move forward to finalize the creation of a Unified, Self-Governing Orthodox Church in the United States.

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FRIDAY EVENING, November 18 following Vespers: Professor Helen Theodoropoulos will present and have us consider: “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good (1 Cor 12:7) – Serving together the Body of Christ”.

SATURDAY MORNING, November 19, Professor Elizabeth Prodromou will consider: “The Day After the Holy and Great Council: Process, Outcomes, and Transformation”.

Metropolitan Isaiah, Archbishop Nathaniel and Archbishop Benjamin will offer comments on these topics.

We should all be energized to consider how we move forward to finalize the creation of a Unified, Self-Governing Orthodox Church in the United States.

Agenda: Foundations of Religious Liberty in America

KrisAnne Hall is an attorney and former prosecutor who travels the country teaching the Constitution and the history that gave us our founding documents. The history of Religious Liberty in America that isn’t being taught anywhere else. As a pastor’s wife, KrisAnne speaks with authority regarding the Christian’s Biblical obligation to Liberty. She has a daily live internet radio podcast and also posts her regular lectures on her YouTube video channel. Her presentation will deal only with historical facts.

The Miraculous Myrrh-Streaming Icon of St. Anna, the Mother of the Holy Virgin Mary, from the Monastery of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk in Pennsylvania will visit Holy Trinity Orthodox

In honor of the icon, the Very Rev. Lev Kopistiansky, rector of Holy Trinity, will offer a prayer service to St. Anna with anointing of the faithful on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 1 p.m.

After the service, Riasophore Monk Michael (Juk) from the monastery will conduct a spiritual retreat on prayer and fasting. After the retreat, the icon will be present at Great Vespers served by Fr. Kopistiansky at 4 p.m.

The icon also will be present at Divine Liturgy served by Fr. Kopistiansky on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 10 a.m.

Join us for the 2016 AAR & SBL Annual Meetings in San Antonio! More than 1,200 events—academic sessions, additional meetings, receptions, tours, and workshops—will be offered. Registration, the Exhibit Hall, and the Employment Center will be held in the San Antonio Convention Center, 900 E. Market Street, San Antonio, Texas, 78205. Sessions will be held in the San Antonio Convention Center, Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency Riverwalk, Hilton Palacio del Rio, Marriott Rivercenter, and the Marriott Riverwalk. Conference hotels are located within walking distance of one another. Register soon to get the best attendee rate and hotel selection.

Join us for an hour course on writing like an Iconographer. Wayne Hajos will present four different types of Iconographic scripts found in Greek and Russian cultures and teach a step by step course for beginners.

The Council of Orthodox Christian Churches of Metropolitan Detroit (COCC) will sponsor its fifth annual “St. Nicholas Is Santa Claus,” a Nativity-season children’s party., on Saturday,

“The party will feature the story of St. Nicholas as told by St. Nicholas himself. “Children will meet St. Nicholas and receive a gift while their parents take their pictures. They will do a craft project, and there will be a carol sing-a-long and refreshments.”

From 11 a.m. to noon, children will also be able to have their pictures taken with live reindeer.

Agenda: The Horrors of Human Trafficking

Ms Tardif’s program “Lucia’s Letter” on human trafficking, received a coveted Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a gold medal from the New York Festivals and 1st place for Best Documentary from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. A panel discussion will follow with Dr. Johnny McGaha, Rev. Vann Ellison, and Amy Tardif.

The Day-long gathering will focus on the various ways the Eastern Orthodox Church, over past centuries and in recent times, has approached the dominant and central theme of spiritual transcendence. The Conference title clearly evokes the work of Vladimir Lossky, whose study of this name was so influential in opening up to the wider Christian world aspects of the inner spiritual traditions of Orthodoxy. Our approach to the concept will probably follow a wider arc: considering the Orthodox world’s approach to spirituality through philosophy, theology, asceticism, literature, monastic and lay prayer traditions, as well as liturgy. Correlated themes such as the evocation of a transcendent ethos in Church architecture and art are equally possible ways of approaching the notion: as clearly are also ethical and political avenues of enquiry. We will cover a time span from The New Testament, through Byzantium, to contemporary Church life.

His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos and the Metropolis of San Francisco Philoptochos joyfully invite you to attend “Light the Path”, a Christmas Luncheon in support of the Bishop Anthony Philoptochos Student Aid Endowment Fund.

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Upcoming Events

In preparation for the 2018 celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the United States, the UHEC presents an exhibition documenting the lives of the Church’s prime hierarchs, the historical and cultural contexts

The Museum is pleased to announce its next exhibition–Rushnyky: Sacred Ukrainian Textiles. Opening February 15, 2018, the exhibition celebrates and explores Ukrainian culture through one of its most ancient and valued traditions. A rushnyk is

Emory University is pleased to host the Medieval Academy of America for the first time since 1984. The entire conference will be held and housed at the Emory Conference Center, a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired building